Re: Cloning a Debian system

1998-01-14 Thread Udjat -Capt'n Squibb
_always_ be careful doing anything as root and read the man pages to understand what you are doing. --Udjat On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: » I have setup a small Debian Linux system as a router, is there an easy way » to "clone" this? I.e. to create copies of it on simi

Re: "last","w","who" not working !

1998-01-07 Thread Udjat -Capt'n Squibb
Thankyou!! I have asked 5 different times on different debian lists to get that anwser. It works too (i did need to do the reboot BTW) Thanks again! --Eric (udjat) On 6 Jan 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: » In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, » Christian Hammers <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Backup systems: opinions wanted

1997-12-03 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
I use bru 2000 and I am _very_ happy with it. I also us cpio to copy my whole filesystem(/) to a different partition (/snapshot) to have a online read-only backup of files. You could get by with cpio but I like the tape verify and features of bru 2000. Take a look at www.estinc.com On 3 Dec 1997

run-parts /etc/cron.daily (HELP!)

1997-11-29 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
Ieee! Whats going on here??? I just did the latest update in hamm BTW. Thanks for the help in advance! Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 06:53:03 -0800 From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily Electric Fence 2.0.5 Copyright (C

Crash! (help)

1997-11-25 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
What is device 03:01 ( see the syslog below. I assume its the swap partition) I did: swapoff /dev/hda2 mkswap -c /dev/hda2 swapon -a That should have reset a corrupt swap partition correct? here is the messages from the syslog: Nov 25 00:50:00 bitgate /USR/SBIN/CRON[247

Re: Default Screen Blanking

1997-11-25 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
setterm -blank 0 On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Keith Holler wrote: > Does anyone know how to disable that annoying screen blanking? > > Keith -- When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. ,, / ( "> ___ _(-}) B I T B U

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-23 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, butch wrote: try cfdisk, I believe its also available on the debian disks. > Hi, > > I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that > debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other > distributions. i was wondering if i

help- ldconfig: warning

1997-11-20 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libolg.so.3 (No such file or directory), skipping Anyone know what package libolg.so.3 comes from? Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine. ,, / ( "> ___ _(-}) B

Is there anyway to fix this? (libc6 prob)

1997-11-14 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
[bitgate]udjat ~ $> w 1:22pm up 17:11h, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.06, 0.07 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT tigger ttyp0 3:10am 8:54h 0.00s ? - udjatttyp1 8:06am 0.00s 0.00s ?- The PCPU & WHAT entrys no longer work. PLEASE HELP!!!

Re: K56Flex Modems

1997-11-13 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 13 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: > >> Can anyone make any recommendations for K56Flex modems (preferably > >> external) that work well under Linux? > > > >This isn't a Linux issue. Any modem, whether K56Flex or x2 will work under > >Linux. > Sorry, but I

Re: Crazy Question

1997-11-08 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Collin Rose wrote: > > What command you use to find out how much free space you have on your hard > drive? > it's 'df' (disk free??) [bitgate]udjat ~ $> df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available

wtmp/ who and w problem. (repost)

1997-11-07 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
d relogged in. But reseting it did not help. Thanks much! [bitgate]udjat /usr/bin $> w 9:40pm up 2 days, 1:33h, 4 users, load average: 1.26, 1.33, 1.28 USER TTYLOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT nobrand ttyp1 7:27am 36:15m 0.00s ?- udjatttyp2 9:31pm 1.00s 0.00

wtmp/ who and w problem.

1997-11-06 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
I upgraded to hamm a few days ago and I am running into a bit of trouble. I beleve the new wtmp format is the problem will reseting it help? If so is correct way to do this '> wtmp' ? Thanks much! [bitgate]udjat /usr/bin $> w 9:40pm up 2 days, 1:33h, 4 users, load ave

Package elf-x11r6lib is not installed. --Help?

1997-11-02 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
Where do I find this mysterious package? Thanks! running dpkg --pending --configure ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xview-dev: xview-dev depends on elf-x11r6lib; however: Package elf-x11r6lib is not installed. dpkg: error processing xview-dev (--configure): dependency

Re: 2.0.31

1997-10-22 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > I am getting error/warnings on both bo and hamm boxes after installing > 2.0.31. Anybody else having trouble with it? Nope, Not a problem here. It seems to know my hardware well. Granted I have only a three day up

Ack crash!

1997-10-04 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Got this error yesterday, It filled the console and the machine was frozen: Oct 3 16:00:04 bitgate kernel: Problem: block on freelist at 00497210 isn't free. I booted to a resq partition and e2fsck the disk (a few errors 1 major one) and remade the swap part

(non-debian) PPP question.

1997-09-28 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have two different modems that I make PPP connections with. Is there a way to force them to us the same network interface every time? serial-ppp1 uses ppp0 ISDN-ppp2 uses ppp1 every time? I use mrtg to track traffic and the interfaces flip around. Thanks!

ldconfig help...

1997-09-23 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- can anyone please give me a hand with this one ldconfig tells me that it can find a bunch fo X libs bit dpkg says that I have installed them.. [bitgate]root ~/downloads $> ldconfig ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so (No such file or di

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-23 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote: > you can always download and install newer packages from hamm. > > Lawrence Ahhh, not true! bo is all libc5 and hamm is libc5 & libc6. I cant take the latest gimp, tripwire etc. without adding libc6 (which I don't want to

Perfmeter?

1997-08-30 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
Greetings, I need a perfmeter for watching systems from remote. I know about xload and procmeter but I need to see other systems besides the localhost. I cant find this package anyplace (or something close) Please help! thanks! --Eric -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wor

getting latest .debs

1997-08-26 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
latest tripwire on ftp.debian.org Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. debian:...istributions/debian/non-free/binary> ls trip* tripwire_1.2-4.deb I know there have been updates of this package but I cant ftp to master.debian.org to get them anymore (annon access denied!) When ca

Re: Help with Debian and ISDN

1997-08-04 Thread Udjat -A MiB
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I am trying to get BONDING working with Debian 3.1. I'll explain my setup. > - External Motorola Bitsurfer Pro > - using cua1 or ttyS1 (both dial and connect via V.120) > - I am using ppp (start and stop) in /etc/init.d > > I h

Re: Help with Debian and ISDN

1997-08-04 Thread Udjat -A MiB
On Sun, 3 Aug 1997, Dave Cinege wrote: > I had this same problem with both a Zyxel Omni TA, and Elite 2864i. Drove me > and my ISP crazy for a few days. My machine gun redialing manged to bring > down his whole netit was not a pretty sight. (And we still don't know > why) > > We watched the

PPP question.

1997-07-29 Thread Udjat -A MiB
I have a BitsurfrPro EZ modem (ISDN). I can do single channel connections just fine. How ever when I do multi-link PPP (duel channel) I have a LCP EchoReq problems: Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: local IP address 206.163.127.171 Jul 28 09:46:18 bitgate pppd[28432]: remote IP address 206.16

e2fsck scan on active partition

1997-07-12 Thread Udjat -A MiB
Is there a way to "safely" do a e2fsck scan on your active and boot partitions? I dont want to fix any problems, I just want to see if there are any problems without booting a different partition/resq disk. there is the -n option but I dont know if that is _safe_ Thanks! --Udja

general protection: 0000

1997-06-28 Thread Udjat.
I have been getting general protection: for a long time an I really want to get to the bottom of this. It seems to allways be kswapd. This log came from a less than 24 hour clean install of debian. version 1.2.10. Now its up to the current unstable version. I had the system to the unstable ve

Re: general protection: 0000

1997-06-27 Thread Udjat.
On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Philippe Troin wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 1997 12:38:38 PDT "Udjat." ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I have been getting general protection: for a long time an I really > > want to get to the bottom of this. It seems to allways be kswapd. T

procps.

1997-06-23 Thread Udjat -Whoo
I installed the new version of procps and the free program well... [bitgate]udjat ~ $> free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 31000 26112 4888 7124 6684 -/+ buffers:194284192508 <---I dont thi

Re: dselect problem

1997-06-21 Thread Udjat -Whoo
On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: > Net::FTP.Bad peer address at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405 > I think thats because ftp.debian.org is down (I am guessing thats who your using). Try a mirror site. :) Smash forehead on keyboard to continue. ,, / ( "> _

Re: modem hang up

1997-06-21 Thread Udjat -Whoo
Ping you host once in a while. ping -i 500 xyz.com > /dev/null & see ping man page. On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, A.D.Y. Cheng wrote: > Hello all, > > I am running PPP connecting to my ISP. However, after connecting, if I > leave the connection idle for about half an hour, the modem will hang up > i